LETTER

Majorca is the major or largest island in the Balearic Islands, just as Gran Canaria, or Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest island of the  Canary Islands. So it is, that Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles i.e. the single land mass of Scotland, Wales and England. A simple geographical term not a nation. It may have become a place great with the grandeur of wealth owned by the elite and royalty via a stolen empire aided with past slavery.

As the British Empire finally collapsed into a Commonwealth, the home British Islands, in their diminishing days, certainly relied post WW2 on the good people of the Wind Rush era to maintain its status of economic greatness. What happened to the Wind Rush people was an act of great treachery to those who built a semblance of greatness after the WW2 war. Recently just over half the people of the British Isles proved their continued insularity mindset by voting for Brexit from Europe. 

Maybe we should think again of the name for these islands. Possibly some Irish; Scots, and Welsh, might object to continuing as the United Kingdom. Why not have a referendum over a choice of name such as the ‘Temperate Islands’, or even the ‘Welcome Islands’ as just about everyone wants to come here these days.

I. Richard, Swansea.

Mr. Ioan Richard, 23, Mountain Rd., Craigcefnprc, Swansea SA6 5RH.

01792 843861 aptrefor@yahoo.co.uk